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Performance Evaluation of Classification Algorithms on Academic Performance of Postgraduate Students
| International Journal of Computer Applications |
| Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
| Volume 184 - Number 45 |
| Year of Publication: 2023 |
| Authors: O.A. Okunlola, A.K. Ojo |
10.5120/ijca2023922522
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O.A. Okunlola, A.K. Ojo . Performance Evaluation of Classification Algorithms on Academic Performance of Postgraduate Students. International Journal of Computer Applications. 184, 45 ( Feb 2023), 13-16. DOI=10.5120/ijca2023922522
Abstract
Educational data mininghas contributed to enhancing student academic performance by way of enabling stakeholders in academic institutions to have a pre-knowledge of the risks and dangers ahead and how to mitigate them. Prediction algorithms perform differently on dataset, and so, the need to develop models using different prediction algorithms and evaluating the result of such predictions is very important in order to be sure the best algorithm for a particular dataset is used.This work employed four classifiers: K-Nearest-Neighbour, Neural Network, Naïve Bayes and Decision Tree to model and, evaluated their models to know the performance of each on the target dataset. Their results were evaluated based on the various performance metrics. The results showed that Decision Tree had the highest accuracy on the dataset with test accuracy of 48.25% and therefore is the most suitable out of the four classifiers for performing prediction modelling on the dataset. Naïve Bayes is the second-best prediction model that can be used for predicting academic performance with an accuracy of 36.25%., followed by Neural Network with accuracy of 32.5 % and then K-Nearest Neighbour with accuracy of 32.5% but with lower precision, recall and area under Receiver Operating Characteristic curve.
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